Welcome to my online Family Tree!



This site centers around the the union of 
Martin L. Peck & Mary M. Taylor, 
and their family histories, present and past.
  
I began research into my family in 2002, and I recently began researching the Peck 
family also.  Some of the surnames being researched are:  
Peck, Taylor, Hess, Baldwin, Blankenship, & Moser.  
These are surnames from both sides.  
  
Take your time and look around my site.  I have spent countless hours gathering the information I 
have so far. I believe most of the information I have here to be accurate, but if you find anything 
that you believe is not, feel free to contact me.  Genealogy research is a never-ending endeavor, 
so this is a work-in-progress.  Your contributions may be of assistance in collecting information 
that may bridge a gap to much more interesting information.
 
I was recently able to track one family line all the way back to Switzerland with the birth of 
Moser Joder in Joder Huebel, Bern, Switzerland in 1234.  Moser Yoder's 9x grandson, Andreas Moser 
immigrated somewhere between his birth in 1603 and death in 1671 bringing the family line to 
Germany, as he died in 1671 in Altengreuth, Ansbach, Bayern, Germany.  The 13x grandson of Moser 
Yoder and  great great grandson of Andreas Moser, Lehnert 'Leonard' Mohsser, brought the family 
line to the United States with his immigration from Germany in 1732 on the ship "Adventure" 
arriving in Philadephia, Pennsylvania at the age of 14.
  
The daughter of Lehnert 'Leonard' Mohsser (14x granddaughter of Moser Yoder & great great great 
granddaughter of Andreas Moser) introduced another ancestry into the family line with her marriage 
to immigrant, Jacob Hesse, born in Moustorft, Alsace Province, France in 1745.  Jacob was a part of 
the Lauzun's Legion, Deux Ponts Regiment in French Army between 1779 and 1782.  Jacob immigrated to 
the United States somewhere between 1782 and the birth of his son, Henry in 1793 in Rowan County, 
North Carolina, United States. Spelling with last names were often changed, probably either by 
misspelling in immigration records, to make the name easier to spell or pronounce, or to improve 
their employment opportunities as immigrants in a new country.  I have recorded people in this 
family tree with their birth name in those instances.
  
Currently, the family line of Jacob Hesse has only been tracked back to the birth of his father, 
Valentine Hesse in Alsace Province, France in 1720.  I am searched for more information on this 
family line, as I know "Hesse" is a surname originating in Germany as well.
  
If anyone has any additional information, photos (especially old ones), documents, stories, or 
anything they would like to share, please feel free to contact me through the website or by 
emailing me at lisa.milanese@outlook.com.  Any help in my research would be greatly appreciated.  
Please visit & sign the guestbook & leave a message for other family members if you 
wish.  
PECK- English: The surname of Peck 
derives from the Old English work pekke, indicating the top of a mountain or hill, 
and was a local name distinguishing a person who lived by a prominent peak.  When the 
ancestors of the Peck family emigrated to England following the Norman Conquest in 1066, they 
brought their family name with them.  They lived in Denbighshire in Wales.

Alternate Surname Spellings: PEC, PICK, BECK
In England, most Peck families settled on the eastern coastal counties. The higher concentration of 
Peck families are in Suffolk, Norfolk, Yorkshire Lincolnshire and especially in the city of London.
A German spelling for Peck is Beck. In German it referred to a person who sold pitch.
In Dutch the Peck name is Pec or Pick and indicates a person in a melancholy temper.

Motto: Crux Christi salus mea.
Motto Translation: The cross of Christ is my salvation.




TAYLOR- English: This is an English surname but of French origins. It derives from the 
word "tailleur" meaning "a cutter-out of cloth", the surname being adopted from the medieval job 
description after the 12th century.

It would seem that tradition dictates that the spelling as tailor refers to the trade of tailoring, 
whilst Taylor, Tayler, Tailour and Taylour are the surname forms, but this is arguable. What is 
certain is that the surname is extremely popular, and in England ranks second only to Smith in the 
surnames listing. It is said that over the centuries its numbers have been swelled by its adoption 
as the English forms of various equivalent continental names such as Schneider, Szabo, and Portnov, 
which have entered into Britain mainly as refugee names.

Early examples of the surname recording taken from surviving rolls and registers of the medieval 
period include: William le Taillur in the Pipe Rolls of the county of Somerset in 1182, and Roger 
le Taylur in the Hundred Rolls of Lincolnshire in 1273.

Among the many Taylors recorded in history are Zackary Taylor (1784 - 1850), the 12th president of 
the Unites States. He was a famous soldier who played a large part in the independence of Texas 
from Mexico, whilst Jane Taylor (1783 - 1824), was a famous childrens author whose works included 
the poem "Twinkle, twinkle, little star".

The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Walter Taylur. This was dated 
1180, in the records of Canterbury Cathedral, during the reign of King Henry 11nd, 1154 - 1189. 
Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to 
astonishing variants of the original spelling.
 
Motto:  In Cruce Salus.
Motto translation:Salvation from the cross.